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ArticleJournal of clinical psychology2022

The plan formulation method: An empirically validated and clinically useful procedure applied to a clinical case of a patient with a severe personality disorder.

Francesco Gazzillo, John Curtis, George Silberschatz

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Article in Journal of clinical psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Francesco GazzilloDepartment of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology and Health Studies, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7955-3710
John CurtisUniversity of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
George SilberschatzUniversity of California San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The plan formulation method (PFM) is an empirically validated procedure for identifying a patient's goals for therapy, what is hindering the patient from attaining those goals, and how the patient is likely to work in therapy. In this paper, we employ the PFM to analyze the initial psychotherapy sessions of Geena, a 30-year-old outpatient with borderline personality disorder and relational and substance abuse problems. Employing the PFM, we identify a family of pathogenic beliefs (e.g., that she is unlovable and unworthy; that her parents will be hurt if she has satisfying intimate relationships) that Geena sought to disprove in her therapy and explain how she worked with the therapist to do so. We illustrate how the PFM can help the therapist identify what information and what types of interventions will be helpful for a given patient.

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Borderline Personality DisorderSubstance-Related DisordersAdultFemaleHumansOutpatientsPsychotherapycase-specific approachcontrol-mastery theoryplan formulationplan formulation method

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PMID34994400

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